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Separate is “inherently unequal,” the Supreme Court declared nearly 70 years ago. Today, journalists and educators are working overtime to tell us that Brown v. Board of Education was written with an asterisk.

A Wall Street Journal report on Sunday celebrated an Evanston, Illinois, program through which students can opt-in to racially segregated “affinity classes.” Black-only English? Check. There’s even an AP calculus class for Latino students who, according to Evanston superintendent Marcus Campbell, might feel “anxious” learning integrals alongside their black peers.

This perverse approach to education isn’t illegal, according to the Journal. No, the paper framed this sort of discrimination as a bold, constitutionally kosher effort to boost the performance of minority students: “Federal antidiscrimination laws prevent public schools from mandatorily separating students by race, but education lawyers say optional courses can comply with the law.”

It is not clear who those unnamed lawyers were or what they told the nation’s second-largest newspaper. The Journal did not respond to a request for comment.

But the attorneys we spoke with—they did provide their names—were flabbergasted by the notion that black-only courses, even voluntary ones like Evanston’s, would hold up in court.

William Trachman, a former official in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, said that the Title VI law that bans race discrimination by federally funded programs “does not distinguish between mandatory and optional activities.” And David Bernstein, an expert on civil rights law at George Mason Law School, said the segregated courses were “blatantly unconstitutional.”

“There is no way that could possibly pass legal muster if someone sued,” he told the Washington Free Beacon. A spokesman for the Evanston school district did not respond to a request for comment.

Whether or not these programs are tossed out in court, it is chilling to see the pervasiveness of a new ideology of “separate but equal” on the left. Racially segregated classes are now available in Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, and Oakland. In Evanston itself, the program at issue represents an extension of an initiative last spring in which two math classes were restricted to “students who identify as black,” on the one hand, and “to students who identify as Latinx.”

“A lot of times within our education system, Black students are expected to conform to a white standard,” Dena Luna, who designed black-only courses in Minneapolis, told the Journal.

That is the contradiction at the heart of this sordid enterprise. Administrators like Luna insist, at one turn, that segregation is necessary to boost the grades and test scores of minority students, then decry those metrics as tools of white oppression at another. The war on standards has already killed middle school algebra in California and traditional grading in parts of Virginia. Now, as schools revive Jim Crow-era practices in the name of “equity,” integrated classrooms could be the next casualty.

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Professors at a number of top California universities—including one who has likened Israel’s supporters to white supremacists—were arrested at the infamous San Francisco protest that saw anti-Israel demonstrators shut down the Bay Bridge, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.

Police on Nov. 16 arrested roughly 80 protesters who abandoned their cars and blocked westbound traffic on the bridge, a stunt that caused hours of delays and led to the cancellation of at least one surgery after three organ transplant couriers were stuck in the chaos. Included among the arrestees was Rayan El-Amine, a self-described “social justice educator” who teaches within San Francisco State University’s “Race and Resistance Studies” department. El-Amine was arrested alongside Sarah Fathallah, a University of California, Berkeley, instructor who touts her involvement in “abolitionist and anarchist organizing.”

The arrests reflect the rise in illegal anti-Israel demonstrations taking place on college campuses across the country—demonstrations that professors have egged on and even helped organize. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, for example, “abolition theory” lecturer Rachel Weber offered legal support and distributed $1,000 in bail money to student protesters who called for terrorism against Israelis and yelled “kill yourself” at police officers. Those protesters trespassed near the chancellor’s office during an Oct. 25 “sit-in” demonstration, leading to their arrest.

El-Amine has a similar history of anti-Israel activism. Before joining San Francisco State’s faculty, El-Amine served as director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center in San Francisco, a group that cheered on Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist assault on Israel by expressing support for the “revolutionary roots of Palestinian liberation.” The professor in a now-deleted Oct. 29 Facebook post compared the Jewish state’s supporters to white supremacists, writing, “White supremacy in this country is so closely tied to supporting Zionism.”

“It will be consumed like [a] blockbuster movie with the ‘good guys’ (US and Israelis) obliterating the eternally evil Arabs,” El-Amine wrote. “It is this deeply colonial and racist repertoire that we have had to endure for decades.” El-Amine has also accused both Israel and the United States of genocide and said Gazans are “trapped in a concentration camp.”

Fathallah, meanwhile, delivered a presentation on “Pro-Palestinian Anarchism” during an August 2022 “Anarchist Studies Conference.” Fathallah during her presentation argued that it is “indeed possible” for anarchists to support the “struggle for Palestinian liberation.”

“This presentation argues that it is indeed possible to hold a pro-Palestinian anarchist political project,” Fathallah wrote, “when that project is situated in a plural and solidaristic understanding of anarchism; a decolonial and Indigenous critique of anarchism; and a nuanced commitment to Palestinian resistance and liberation.” Fathallah teaches “service design and UX research courses” at Berkeley’s extension school, according to her LinkedIn and online bio.

El-Amine, Fathallah, and San Francisco State did not return requests for comment. Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof told the Free Beacon that Fathallah and other university employees “have the same rights and responsibilities as any other member of the public” and “do not speak for or represent the values, perspectives or positions of the university.”

“When laws are broken, we trust that the appropriate law enforcement agencies and the judicial system will respond accordingly,” Mogolof said. “I am precluded by California state law from providing any information about personnel actions involving specific employees.”

In addition to El-Amine and Fathallah, Stanford University physics professor Lauren Tompkins was arrested at the Bay Bridge protest but claimed she was on her way to work and should not have been detained. The California Highway Patrol confirmed the identities of the arrestees, who were booked for crimes such as unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, and illegal solicitation.

Protest participants descended on the bridge during the morning commute, stopped their cars, and formed a human chain between vehicles. After stopping traffic, some protesters lay down on the bridge under white sheets and displayed a banner calling for an Israeli ceasefire. Another banner accused Israel of genocide.

California Highway patrol division chief Ezery Beauchamp condemned the demonstration, calling it “100 percent wrong,” “unacceptable,” and “illegal.” The stunt prevented emergency vehicles from crossing the bridge for hours, and at least three couriers who were delivering organs for transplant surgeries were stuck in the traffic, prompting the cancellation of at least one surgery, according to San Francisco’s ABC affiliate.

“This is the wrong way to do it,” Beauchamp said.

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The senior CIA official who posted a pro-Palestinian image on Facebook in the wake of Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel is associate deputy director for analysis Amy McFadden, the agency confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.

McFadden was not mentioned by name in a Tuesday Financial Times article about her Facebook banner image, which was a picture of a man waving a Palestinian flag, citing alleged “concern about her safety.” A review of McFadden’s LinkedIn page revealed expressions of support for the anti-Israel International Crisis Group, once headed by disgraced former White House official Robert Malley.

McFadden’s criticism of Israel comes as President Joe Biden faces a revolt in the federal government over the Jewish state’s military response in Gaza after Hamas’s attacks left at least 1,400 dead, including 32 Americans. The CIA official’s conduct suggests even those working at the highest echelon of the federal government’s intelligence services feel comfortable making public statements contrary to the United States’ official stance on Israel.

“CIA officers are committed to analytic objectivity, which is at the core of what we do as an Agency,” a CIA spokeswoman told the Free Beacon in an emailed statement. “CIA officers may have personal views, but this does not lessen their—or CIA’s—commitment to unbiased analysis.” The agency declined to say whether McFadden would be subject to disciplinary action or termination.

According to the Financial Times, McFadden also posted “a selfie with a sticker saying ‘Free Palestine’ superimposed on the photograph” on Facebook. The paper said that image was uploaded years ago.

McFadden is one of the most senior officials within the CIA and was once responsible for overseeing the president’s “daily brief,” a summary of classified intelligence, the Financial Times reported. In her role as associate deputy director for analysis, McFadden oversees the approval of all the agency’s analysis.

Although McFadden’s particular beliefs on Israel are unclear, she “liked” one post by the International Crisis Group in the last week. That post shared an article in Foreign Affairs that chastised Israel for “making the utter defeat of Hamas its top priority.”

The International Crisis Group, a non-profit that says it works on “preventing and resolving deadly conflict,” has faced criticism over its ties to the Iranian government. Its former president, Malley, is under criminal investigation for allegedly mishandling classified investigation. Malley served as the chief envoy to Tehran under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

The International Crisis Group fired one of its Iran analysts in October over allegations that he worked for a vast Iranian-government propaganda network. That individual, Ali Vaez, reportedly spoke with senior Iranian officials and visited the White House at least five times since 2022.

McFadden’s LinkedIn banner image is a graphic with text that says “I am for equity because equity starts with everyone.” According to McFadden’s profile, she started at the CIA in 1999 and worked in leadership roles at the Office of North African, Arabian Peninsula, and Regional Analysis. From 2012 to 2013, McFadden was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

“Ms. McFadden is the recipient of several prestigious IC awards, including the Intelligence Medal of Merit, the CIA Director’s Award, and the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism,” her profile states.

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After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: We can watch you, too.

On Tuesday North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un had reviewed spy satellite photos of the White House, Pentagon, and U.S. aircraft carriers at the naval base of Norfolk.

North Korea last week successfully launched its first reconnaissance satellite, which it has said was designed to monitor U.S. and South Korean military movements.

Since then state media has reported the satellite photographed cities and military bases in South Korea, Guam, and Italy, in addition to Washington.

“Remember when you got that toy you always wanted at Xmas and were so excited you wanted to tell everyone about it?” Chad O’Carroll, founder of the North Korea-focused website NK News, said of the KCNA reports in a post on X.

So far, Pyongyang has not released any imagery, leaving analysts and foreign governments to debate how capable the new satellite actually is.

South Korea, which said on Tuesday the Nov. 30 launch date for its own first spy satellite on a U.S. Falcon 9 rocket would be delayed by weather, has said the North’s satellite capabilities could not be verified.

In Washington, the Pentagon said North Korea’s satellite did enter orbit but did not comment on Pyongyang’s claims about the images it had captured.

“I will say that there are plenty of images of the Pentagon and the White House online,” Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder told reporters.

There’s no reason to doubt that the satellite could see the large areas or warships North Korea claimed it could, as even a medium-resolution camera could offer Pyongyang that capability, said Dave Schmerler, a satellite imagery expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).

“But how useful those images are depends on what they want to use them for,” he said.

For medium-resolution satellites to be useful in a conflict, North Korea will need to launch many more to allow more frequent passes over key sites, Schmerler said, a goal that the North’s space agency has said it is pursuing.

“It’s a big leap for them going from zero to something, but until we can see the images they’re collecting, we’re speculating on its use cases,” he said.

Jeffrey Lewis, another researcher at CNS, said a state media photo of Kim examining the satellite images with his daughter suggest they may be panchromatic, a type of black-and-white photography that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light.

North Korea released panchromatic imagery of downtown Seoul after a rocket launch in December 2022 in what it said was a test of the satellite control, image taking, and data downlink for its eventual military reconnaissance satellite.

Tuesday’s photos were the latest in a series of images of what KCNA described as “major target regions”.

Kim also inspected satellite photos of the Andersen Air Force Base in the U.S. Western Pacific territory of Guam and a U.S. shipyard and airbase in Norfolk and Newport, where four nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and a British aircraft carrier were spotted, KCNA said.

Commercial imagery of those cities on Nov. 27, the day North Korea says it captured its photographs, was not immediately available.

The United States and South Korea have condemned the satellite launch as a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions banning any use of ballistic technology.

(Reporting by Hyonhee ShinEditing by Chris Reese, Gerry Doyle, and Sandra Maler)

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Teachers at a New York City high school said Monday that they don’t feel safe in the aftermath of an anti-Semitic riot that broke out at the school.

Faculty told New York City Schools chancellor David Banks in a closed-door meeting that they were concerned for their well-being after students rioted in the hallways of Hillcrest High School in Queens on Nov. 20, an unnamed source told the New York Post. The riot broke out after students learned that a Jewish teacher at the school had attended a pro-Israel rally and posted about it on social media.

Hundreds of students rallied in the hallways of the school while waving Palestinian flags, tearing a water fountain from the wall in the process, as the teacher hid in a locked office. Students had made a group chat to expose the teacher and plan their demonstration, the Post reported over the weekend. Twenty-five police officers were deployed to stop the riot at the school, principal Scott Milczewski said. Police arrested and charged with aggravated harassment an 18-year-old student, who allegedly made threats in a group chat, the next day.

Banks on Monday revealed to reporters that the instigators had received punishment—though he did not say exactly what the disciplinary action was—and that some students were suspended, according to the Post. He also said that there were calls to “suspend 500 students” who took part in the riot, but said that “we are not doing that.”

He also said the school went on lockdown two days after the riot because a student said there would be a similar disturbance if the administration did not fire the teacher, who will return to work this week.

Banks criticized those who said the students were “radicalized.”

“This notion that this place, these kids are radicalized and anti-Semitic is the height of irresponsibility,” Banks said. “I will not accept that at all.”

When news of the riot broke last week, Mayor Eric Adams (D.) said on X, formerly Twitter, that the “vile show of anti-Semitism at Hillcrest High School was motivated by ignorance-fueled hatred” and would “not be tolerated in any of our schools, let alone anywhere else in our city.”

Anti-Semitic incidents have surged in the United States in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel. Such incidents have increased nearly 400 percent since Israel’s war on the terror group began, according to a report the Anti-Defamation League released last month.

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The women’s rights body U.N. Women on Friday posted and later deleted a condemnation of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel, the latest instance of the United Nations sparking controversy for its response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

“We condemn the brutal attacks by Hamas on October 7 and continue to call for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages,” read the now-deleted post on the United Nations organization’s Instagram page, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The United Nations women’s group then replaced the post with one that only called for the release of hostages, with no condemnation of the terrorists.

A representative for U.N. Women told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the deleted post was inconsistent with the organization’s focus amid the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas.

“U.N. Women social media team had pre-planned days in advance [of] this particular post, but then the news broke on the release of hostages and we really wanted to focus on that,” a spokeswoman said in a statement. “U.N. Women has condemned the attacks by Hamas and the deaths of Israeli civilians from the beginning as well as called for the release of hostages, and we will continue doing so until the conflict ends. We have also called for all allegations of gender-based violence to be rigorously investigated, prioritizing the rights, needs, and safety of those affected.”

After it replaced the post, the agency made another one on Instagram that condemned the “gender-based violence” on Oct. 7 but did not mention Hamas.

“We met with Israeli women’s organizations and heard about the work of the Civil Commission for crimes against women and children,” the post read. “We remain alarmed by reports of gender-based violence on 7 October and call for rigorous investigation, prioritizing the rights, needs & safety of those affected.”

In response to that post, the Israeli foreign ministry slammed U.N. Women on X, formerly Twitter, for being “SILENT on the rape, murder and kidnapping of hundreds of Israeli women and girls” for nearly 50 days following the attacks. Aside from an Oct. 13 statement condemning Hamas’s attacks on Israel, the group’s public comments have centered on the suffering of Palestinians, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.

The controversy comes nearly two months after Hamas terrorists entered the Jewish state and killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Since then, the U.N. has drawn controversy for its comments on the war.

Weeks after the attacks, U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres faced backlash for saying that it was “important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” adding that the “Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” In the days following his comments, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for a humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities, but it failed to adopt a proposed amendment to it that would have condemned Hamas’s attacks.

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Senate Republicans this week called on the White House to withdraw its nomination of Hunter Biden’s former law associate to serve as head of the office that handles federal whistleblower complaints.

The Washington Free Beacon reported last month that President Joe Biden nominated Hampton Dellinger to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Dellinger worked until 2020 at Boies Schiller Flexner, a top Democratic law firm. His stint there overlapped with Hunter Biden’s position as counsel to the firm, where the younger Biden worked on behalf of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings.

Emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop show that the first son worked closely with Boies Schiller’s crisis management team, of which Dellinger was a member, to craft a public relations and lobbying strategy for Burisma as the Ukrainian firm faced several bribery investigations. Biden and Dellinger exchanged emails and attended a private dinner for the law firm’s crisis management team in 2014, the Free Beacon reported.

Republicans say that relationship raises “serious” conflict-of-interest concerns about Dellinger, who serves as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy.

“Put simply, Mr. Dellinger’s connection to the Hunter Biden Burisma matter gives us serious pause about his nomination to be Special Counsel,” Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Tom Cotton (Ark.), and John Cornyn (Texas) wrote in a letter to President Biden.

The senators noted that Dellinger, if confirmed, would be in charge of investigating allegations of retaliation against federal whistleblowers. At least two IRS investigators have filed whistleblower complaints regarding the Justice Department’s handling of its investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and his foreign business dealings.

The whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, have also accused IRS and Justice Department officials of retaliating against them for expressing concerns about the probe. In July, Grassley called on the current head of the Office of Special Counsel, Henry Kerner, to investigate the alleged retaliation against Shapley and Ziegler.

In their letter, the Republicans urged Biden to withdraw Dellinger’s nomination and find a nominee who is “free from even the appearance of a conflict of interest.”

“Mr. Dellinger’s reported connection with Hunter Biden and the Burisma matter creates significant doubt that he can carry out his duty to safeguard the IRS whistleblowers, who are critical in shedding light on the two-tiered system of justice perpetrated under your watch,” the senators wrote.

Republicans have investigated whether Joe Biden, as vice president, pulled strings on behalf of Burisma Holdings to help his son. Hunter Biden was tapped in April 2014 to serve on Burisma’s board of directors.

Shapley and Ziegler, the IRS investigators, have alleged that Hunter Biden failed to pay taxes on his income from Burisma in 2014 and 2015. An unidentified FBI whistleblower provided Senate Republicans with an FBI memo that alleges the owner of Burisma discussed paying bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden to shut down corruption investigations against his firm.

The White House, which did not respond to a request for comment, has vigorously denied that Joe Biden accepted bribes from Burisma or intervened to help the company on behalf of his son.

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Senate Republicans are moving on legislation that would redesignate the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as a terrorist organization, citing the group’s weekend missile attacks on a U.S. warship as an alarming escalation, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The legislation—led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and six Republican colleagues—will be introduced Monday and will reapply all sanctions on the Houthis that were lifted in 2021 when the Biden administration took office and removed the Iran-sponsored rebel group from the U.S. terror list.

Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, Iranian proxies in the region have escalated their operations, launching dozens of strikes on U.S. assets in the area. The Houthis are responsible for a spate of missile attacks on U.S. and Israeli positions during the past several weeks, including a weekend ballistic missile strike aimed at an American warship in the Gulf of Aden.

Cruz and other Republicans attempted to reapply sanctions on the Houthis early last year but that effort did not pass the Democrat-controlled body. However, with the Iranian-armed terror outfit now routinely launching ballistic missile attacks at U.S. forces, a redesignation of the group could garner bipartisan interest.

“The Biden administration made a day one politically driven decision to dismantle terrorism sanctions against the Houthis and their leaders,” Cruz told the Free Beacon in a statement. “That decision was an obvious and catastrophic mistake from the very beginning, and it has only become more obvious and more catastrophic as time has gone on.”

The bill is cosponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), Roger Marshall (R., Kan.), Thom Tillis (R., N.C.), Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.), John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.). It is likely other Republicans will join the effort as pressure mounts to address the Houthis’ confrontation with the U.S. military.

The Biden administration has been under immense pressure from Republicans to explain why it is taking a softline approach towards Iran in the wake of Hamas’s war on Israel, which was planned with Tehran’s assistance. In addition to its weak sanctions policy on Iran and its terrorist proxies, the Biden administration gave Tehran access to around $10 billion in funds that were frozen in Iraq, cash that will “support more violence against Israel, the U.S., and our allies,” according to Republican critics.

Cruz’s bill would reclassify the Houthis as a U.S.-designated terror group and reapply sanctions on its funding streams, including those from Iran. Sanctions would also be reapplied on several of its leaders, including Abdul Malik al-Houthi, Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim.

Cruz says the Biden administration fears reapplying sanctions on the terror group due to its diplomacy with Iran aimed at securing a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear accord.

“The Houthis and other Iranian-controlled terrorists are openly and routinely attacking the United States and our allies, but the Biden administration still refuses to reverse its decision, because they believe doing so would be politically costly,” the senator said. “President Biden needs to put an end to enabling the Houthis and other Iran-backed terrorist groups through sanctions relief and sanctions non-enforcement. If he won’t, then Congress should mandate that he does so.”

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The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday accused Hamas of violating the terms of the temporary ceasefire agreement by targeting IDF troops with explosives.

“Over the last hour, three explosive devices were detonated adjacent to IDF troops in two different locations in northern Gaza, violating the framework of the operational pause,” the IDF stated on Monday.

The IDF added that the soldiers, who were located in the agreed-upon ceasefire lines, returned fire and that “a number” of troops were “lightly injured” in the engagements.

Hamas in turn accused Israel of violating the agreement first. The group said, however, that it would continue to abide by the terms of the truce so long as Israel followed suit.

Israel and Hamas agreed to pause hostilities last week to facilitate the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages. They reached a deal Monday to continue the truce for two more days, with the same conditions as the prior agreement.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating an employee who posted a video to social media mocking Israel’s efforts to secure the release of hostages being held by the terror group Hamas, the agency told the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday.

Shekeba Morrad, an attorney working for the federal government, posted—and deleted—a video on her Instagram account in which she derides Israel’s calls for the Iran-backed terror group to release around 250 hostages, according to a watchdog group that tracks anti-Semitism online.

“We just want our hostages back. Give us our two hundred hostages,” Morrad says in the video, which was published Monday evening on X, formerly Twitter, by Canary Mission.

Shakeba Morrad, an appellate attorney at Office of General Counsel for U.S. @DeptVetAffairs, posted (& later deleted) a video of herself on Instagram mocking Israelis pleading for the return of their citizens being held hostage by Hamas. WATCH it on X: https://t.co/f5L8ICEvVr pic.twitter.com/GpR7mgK6D2

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) November 27, 2023

A Veterans Affairs spokesman confirmed to the Free Beacon that the agency is investigating the incident and that it does not tolerate anti-Semitism.

“We are aware of this incident, are investigating the matter, and will take any appropriate action,” said Terrence Hayes, the department’s press secretary. “There is no place at VA for anti-Semitism or any expression of bigotry or hatred.”

Morrad joins a growing chorus of Biden administration employees who oppose Israel’s defensive operations in the Gaza Strip aimed at rescuing hostages still being held by the terror group.

At the State Department, career foreign service officer Sylvia Yacoub has used her social media profiles to lambast the Biden administration for supporting Israel, accusing the president of being complicit in Israel’s so-called genocide, the Free Beacon reported earlier this month.

Morrad, who lists herself in online profiles as an appellate attorney at the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs, posted the video in question on Nov. 12, according to Canary Mission.

It gained traction on social media, with pro-Israel observers condemning the rhetoric, and the video was subsequently deleted.

The war has been paused for the past five days as Israel and Hamas negotiate over the hostages. Eleven Israelis were released on Tuesday, and Israel says it will continue to abide by a ceasefire agreement if an additional 10 hostages are released each day.

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